I've been #ungrading this semester and we are at midterms. My students were asked to reflect and give themselves a grade on their work in the course so far.

This is organic chemistry lecture btw. Reading their reflections and assessments has been awesome; they took it seriously But a question I got a while ago was: what if a student gives themselves a higher grade than what I would agree on?

These scenarios are infrequent, but I still want to talk candidly about how we work through it in my class--because it happens.

Because everyone's talking about this one...

I actually was frustrated with similar things when trying to reach out to students. I sent them emails and had their profs make announcements about these helpful sessions I was hosting. No one came. Ever.

https://twitter.com/MarkLeuchter/status/1448429055557218309

When I managed to run into some of them I asked if they'd be interested in the next one and their response was 'I didn't know this was happening.'

My student population is so overloaded with emails and announcements that it's very hard for them to sort them.